USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Ely Valley Mine
Source Corroborated Zinc Underground 6 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Mining district
- Pioche District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 17 T1N R67E Structure: Faulting Ne Trending Normal Frontal Faults On The Pioche Hills Each Flank Of Commodity: Ore minerals not given in the literature Deposit: Dump rock heavily Fe-mn stained and composed of silicified limestone and shale with …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Pioche , 1953
- Shaft : Ely Range , 1921
- Shaft : Pioche , 1953
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Ely Valley Mines Inc. · Historical operator · 1963
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
View all 20 reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Hematite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Shale
- Siderite
- Sphalerite
- Wad
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57651
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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